Union request deferred;
Health Center gets nod
By Heather Heinisch
Staff Reporter
The Committee for Fees Allo
cations made its recommendations
Thursday to
increase the
University
Health Cen
ter’s budget
by 1.31 per
cent of
$2,828,362.
The $36,585 increase was the
full amount the health center re
quested, up from $2,791,777 last
year.
The Union Board presented its
budget proposal for 1991-92, re
questing a 3.7 percent increase of
$54,010. This would increase the
budget from $1,456,749 last year
to $1,510,759.
Nebraska Union Director Daryl
Swanson said the increases fall into
four broad categories: hourly wages,
employee benefits, telephone bills
and postage.
Swanson said federal mandates
caused two of the increases — one
in the federal minimum wage level
and the other in the postage rates.
He said the union offices try to
keep student employment down,
so the increase in the minimum
wage will have a minimum affect
on the budget.
University administrators also
advised the Union Board to antici
pate an 18-percent increase in group
health insurance rates for perma
nent employees, Swanson said.
“The board is bound to follow
the university guidelines,” he said.
The new UNL phone service is
as much as 25 percent to 30 percent
more expensive than the old sys
tem, he said, adding that the serv
ice still needs to be reviewed.
Swanson said the only new fea
ture of the budget was the addition
of a peer counseling program in the
Women’s Resource Center.
Margaret Nellis, interim direc
tor of Campus Activities and Pro
grams, said the service was needed
to offer a place for students to go
when they have a problem.
“Students reach out to other
students,” she said.
Swanson said the budget does
not include consideration of salary
increases for permanent employ
ees.
“It would be foolhardy to specu
late months in advance” about sal
ary increases, he said.
CFA will make its recommen
dations on the union budget Tues
day and hear appeals from the Office
of Campus Recreation.
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concepts: biochemists from East and
City campuses, engineers and core
facilities for a biotechnology thrust.
No other university has pulled to
gether these three components.”
Marion O’Leary, head of the UNL
Biochemistry Department, agreed,
saying the biotechnology revolution
is “movirj science in exciting new
directions.”
O’Leary said biochemistry is “big
business” and the research center would
be an economic benefit to the univer
sity and Nebraska.
“The federal funding supplies a
multiplier effect in the local econ
omy,” he said.
Private donations
= $29 million
USD A and other federal grants I
s $17 million J
11 I Requested state matching funds f
j|_| =$6 million |
Source: UNL Vice Chancellor for Research \
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According to NCAA rules, student
athletes only rriay receive a portion of
certain need-based financial aid.
State Sen. Elroy Hetnerof Coleridge
again voiced opposition to the bill,
saying the NCAA could sanction the
state university and colleges.
“I still feel this bill is the wrong
-m ar • •
solution to the problem," Hefner said.
Hefner said he thought the
postsecondary institutions that fall
under the jurisdiction of the NCAA
could be prohibited from signing
contracts to televise games and teams
could be restricted from playing in
bowl games.
“I feel those sanctions could be
detrimental to our Nebraska Com
huskers — in fact, it could be devas
taring.,” he said.
Chambers said the bill was thor
ough and complete, especially with
the addition of Sen. Chris Beutler’s
amendment that would strike out the
bill's operative date of February 1992
and push it back to June 1992.
Beutler of Lincoln had said earlier
this session that he wanted to move
back the date so the Legislature would
have one more full session to exam
ine the ramifications of the bill.
Military means some drop classes
By Alan Phelps
Staff Reporter
Operations in the Persian Gulf are
causing some student militaiy reserv
ists’ two-week training sessions to be
scheduled during the academic year,
forcing them to drop classes in a few
cases, a UNL official said.
Linda Schwartzkopf, administra
tive assistant to the vice chancellor
for student affairs at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, said she never had
received a call from someone con
cerning an absence because of annual
Reserves training exercises until
Operation Desert Shield began in
August 1990.
“I never dealt with reservists be
fore Desert Shield started. They often
did their training in the summer,”
said Schwartzkopf, who is in charge
of the absence notification process.
Schwartzkopf said she recently
received about five calls from mem
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phone with an up-and-coming dance
band. After a few months, he says, he
decided he was more interested in
writing, not just jazz, but all kinds of
music.
He went back to school and de
cided to become a teacher at the uni
versity level where he could write as
much as he pleased without commer
cial pressures, he savs.
Beadell describes his style as being
American nationalist, a kind of open
sound written in American vernacu
lar.
Before coming to UNL in 1954,
Beadell taught at a small college in
Missouri and freelanced as a jazz
player in Chicago. Since then he has
received many honors, his most re
cent being the Steinhart Foundation
Distinguished Professorship of Mu
sic, which recognized his 36 years of
outstanding service and contributions
to music.
Other awards include UNL’s Dis
tinguished Teaching Award, the
Regents Citation for Excellence and
UNL’s Award for Outstanding Re
search and Creativity — the highest
award given to faculty members.
Among his composing awards are 21
consecutive American Society of
Composers, Artists and Performers
Awards for creativity and dvance
ment of American music.
One of Beadell’s favorite compo
sitions is the opera “Napoleon,” per
formed by the UNL School of Music
in 1973.
“The chairman of our school (John
Moran, the late director of the School
of Music) closed down all classes for
three days so 1 could finish last-min
utc revisions on the opera,” Beadell
says. “That to me represented the
kind of support a lot of us receive in a
school of music situation. Most of the
school was involved in the perform
ance. It had a cast of thousands.”
Beadell says that in the last 15
years, he has bee ome extremely inter
ested in vocal music, using the works
of American poets and writers in his
works. “Out to the Wind,” an adapta
tion of a Willa Cather short story, is
one of his favorites.
At the end of this semester, Beadell
plans to retire from leaching. One
thing he says he’ll miss is the associa
tion with students.
“Seeing students develop, seeing
the electric light come on in a class,
that makes it all worthwhile.”
But Beadell says he is looking
forward to his retirement, which will
give him more time to travel with his
wife and to read.
And, of course, he’ll have more
time to compose. ■